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Introduction
Constructive programmes of Mahatma Gandhi included initiatives towards backward classes, women, minorities, freedom fighters, poor in the society. His constructive contribution during Non-cooperation movement and Civil disobedience movement was unparalleled and unmatched.
Body
Constructive programmes of Mahatma Gandhi during Non-cooperation movement and Civil disobedience movement:
- Unification: He promoted Hindu Muslim unity through a network of Ashrams across villages.
- Social work: Through his Satyagraha Sabha he used Home rule league members to put mass mobilisation in social work.
- Khadi promotion: He promoted Khadi and village industries through the use of spinning wheel and boycott of foreign cloth.
- Against untouchability: Through his Harijan campaign he fought for the human rights of backward classes specially during the civil disobedience movement after Pune pact.
- Anti-liquor: In Gandhi’s scheme of constructive programme, prohibition (anti-liquor campaign) was a vital social and moral reform.
- Women’s participation: Gandhi brought the power of women right from non-cooperation movement in order to bring gender participation in mass movement.
- Educational: On education front, Gandhi supported universal primary education and education in vernacular languages.
- Working class: For labour class Mahatma Gandhi support that Labour should have its own unions. The Union should have its own schools, hospitals and a crèche for workers’ children.
Conclusion
Due to such constructive programmes, Mahatma Gandhi was able to mobilise masses to the cause of India’s independence through non-violent and truthful means. It also help India’s national movement to become a mass movement with all section participation.